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… and population decline. The three main ways in which Māori tribes lost land and associated resources were: government … Waikato district, including some of the lands of neutral tribes. Ngāti Maniapoto people had fought against the … Māori grievances and transferred very few resources back to tribes. …
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… more and more elaborate. Land was confiscated both from tribes who had rebelled against the government and … but the consequences were very severe for Waikato–Tainui tribes; Taranaki tribes; Ngāi Te Rangi in Tauranga; and Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… that the claimant group – usually an iwi or group of tribes – had a mandate from its members to negotiate … agreement signed with seven central North Island tribes. It returned $196 million of forest land in total. In …
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… of the Admiralty. His decision was encouraged by the local tribe, Ngāti Whātua, who expected that Pākehā settlement would bring trade, and protection from hostile tribes. In 1840 they sold the Crown a wedge of the central …
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Part of story: Auckland region
… the second article the Queen guaranteed to Māori chiefs and tribes ‘the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of … and other properties’. In the Māori version, chiefs and tribes were promised ‘te tino rangatiratanga’. This meant …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… was a principal chief of Ngāti Haumiti hapū of the Taranaki tribe. Born probably in Taranaki in the early years of the … as Moki. In the 1820s and 1830s he was caught up in his tribe's resistance to a series of Waikato raids. After a … 1840 Te Matakātea was one of the leaders of the Taranaki tribes who went to the assistance of Ngā Rauru. Iwikau Te …
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… canoe. Rangitūkehu was the chief of Te Pahīpoto, a central tribe of the Ngāti Awa people. At the time of Maata's birth … the cessation of fighting, the government awarded loyal tribes, including Tūhourangi, land that had been confiscated …
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… parents were descended from the founding ancestors of their tribes. Although not of the highest rank, he rose to the … From the late eighteenth century Ngāti Toa and related tribes, including Ngāti Raukawa, were constantly at war with …
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… Raymond Firth wrote that ‘the cession of land to another tribe seems to have been regarded as one of the most … This, along with intermarriages, served to confirm the tribe’s occupancy. Paki Harrison of Ngāti Porou comments …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… out to sea – the historian Rēweti Kōhere of the Ngāti Porou tribe wrote that his ancestors’ favourite ground was … spot. 1 Most fishing grounds were jealously guarded by tribes, who passed them down through the generations. To …
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Part of story: Te hī ika – Māori fishing
… lair). Europeans and the New Zealand Company The Whanganui tribes’ early contact with Europeans was sporadic, and … with whalers and traders, some of whom married into the tribes of the river. Following the signing of the Treaty of … wars During the New Zealand wars in 1864, upper river tribes came downriver with the intention of taking the town …
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Part of story: Whanganui tribes
… In another sense it refers to the common ancestors of a tribe. Thus Paikea, Pāoa, Ira, Toi, Uepōhatu and Ruawaipū … would be called stock ancestors of Ngāti Porou and kindred tribes. Whakapiri The literal meaning of whakapiri is to …
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Part of story: Whakapapa – genealogy
… Taranaki was established from the 16th century. Eight iwi (tribes) make up the regional tribal structure. In the north … around Urenui, and Te Āti Awa, with its several hapū (sub-tribes), includes Waitara and New Plymouth. Inland, along …
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Part of story: Taranaki region
… The East Coast region is home to the related tribes of Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata … known as Ngāi Tahupō). Ngāti Porou, the largest of these tribes, inhabits the area between Pōtikirua in the north and …
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Part of story: East Coast region
… becoming Pākehā-Māori (Europeans who lived within Māori tribes). Missionaries Missionaries spread Christianity and … After signing the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Māori tribes became concerned about pressure to sell their land to … to keep their land, customs and mana. After discussions, tribes from Waikato, Taupō and the North Island’s east coast …
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Part of story: Waikato region
… Te Peehi Tūroa was a major leader of the Whanganui tribes during the period of European impact in the first … in southern Hawke's Bay. In 1819 or 1820 the Whanganui tribes were attacked by musket-armed northern tribes returning from the south. The invaders advanced far …
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… their homeland establishing new communities among allied tribes in the south. The pressure that settlers put on Māori … tribal estate. This led to friction and warfare among sub-tribes of Te Āti Awa, as well as hostility toward the …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki
… agreed by the government without consultation with Taranaki tribes, including Te Āti Awa. Although the Taranaki Māori … 1974, 63% of reserves held in the Public Trust for Taranaki tribes had been sold. Treaty settlements In 2013 more than …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Taranaki
… They were generally winter quarters, particularly for iwi (tribes) who moved seasonally to gather or use different … sharks and other fish were often organised on a hapū (sub-tribe) or iwi basis. Nets could be up to a kilometre long, …
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Part of story: Te mahi kai – food production economics
… retribution. The Ngāmotu people consisted of various sub-tribes of Te Āti Awa, including Ngāti Te Whiti, Ngāti … on their ancestral lands and risk the return of the Waikato tribes. …
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Part of story: Te Āti Awa of Wellington